I recently added to the bookmarks displayed in the sidebar of elrst.com a great website that literally changed my way of web browsing. Netvibes proposes to keep you posted about your favorite websites and blogs as it displays their latest articles and entries via RSS feeds. With this you can see in a blink of …
As I mentioned it previously in this article, in January the UK Met Office forecast that 2007 would break all-time records on a meteorological point of view. By reviewing the data available with the first months of the year, it seems to be absolutely the case. This is what the United Nations revealed via one …
On August 4th, the US House passed a bill that may increase the importance of renewable energy sources in the production of local electricity. The goal is to make renewables like wind power or solar PV account for 15 percent of the total electricity produced in the United States by 2020. The bill also included …
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Ce mois-ci fut d’un point de vue tant énergétique que climatique riche en évènements. Ce site a en effet rapporté des faits de divers pays. Du modèle californien à la pollution de l’air qui frappe la Chine ; du programme d’enrichissement de l’uranium au Brésil à la mer d’Aral, nous avons ainsi beaucoup voyagé. Des …
According to EurObserv’ER, an organism from the European Union, solar thermal energy saw its demand grow by no less than 44 percent in 2006 in the European Union. This represents more than three million square meters of panels installed in a year. Huge differences occur between countries. For instance, Germany lead this increase by installing …
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The UK Department for Transport recently released a ranking of cars by their carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre. This is done in order to enable consumers to choose the cleanest car in the category. The cleanest of all being a Volkswagen Polo with as few as 99 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre. According to …
According to several sources, the International Herald Tribune, Business Wire and CNN, the United States plan to build several nuclear power plants in the coming years. The IHT article states : ” Power companies have tentative plans to put the 28 new reactors at 19 sites around the country. “ So after the Russian Confederation, …
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This month I re-read The mysterious island, a fantastic book by French XIXth century author, Jules Verne. This is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their escape is done by balloon and brings them to an inhabited island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The book tells …
While browsing the Internet, I learned about an initiative due to decrease (a bit) the energy consumption of our computer screens while were are surfing the web. The world famous page of Google is in white and according to the creators of Blackle, putting this page in black would save thousands of watts per hour …
Some weeks ago, the Russian government decided to launch a new construction program of nuclear plants. 26 reactors will hence be built in this country by the year 2020. This is a very large plan as it will build in only 12 years the equivalent of half the amount of reactors on French soil. A …
